[Bruno nods as though this confirmed a long-held suspicion. In a way, it had.]

I hear a lot of people lost their memory of it. It's... not uncommon. I lost all kinds of little chunks of time when I was a Shade. Things got to be too much.

[He hems and haws for a moment, clearly not wanting to come out and say what needs said. He takes a breath and just blathers it all out.]

I just... well, I... wanted to see how you were doing because when I ran into you during all that, you weren't yourself. Uhm, literally. You didn't act like yourself at all, you didn't even sound like yourself... your accent was even different....